Meanings
plural spulzies · alternative spuilzie · alternative spulye · alternative spulyie · alternative spuilyie
- Scotlandcountableobsoleteuncountableplunder; booty
Captain Waverley, I must request your favourable construction of her grief, which may, or ought to proceed, solely from seeing her father's estate exposed to spulzie and depredation from common thieves and sorners
1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC
present singular third person spulzies · participle present spulzieing · participle past spulzied · past spulzied · alternative spuilzie · alternative spulye · alternative spulyie · alternative spuilyie
- ScotlandobsoleteTo plunder.
Origin
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spulzie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spulzie
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